good thursday, everyone. we begin this noon hour in the east with a dramatic development in the search for the trapped miners in west virginia. a few hours ago, rescue crews were forced to evacuate because of the air quality and officials feared another toxic explosion. right now, crews are drilling a hole into the mine shaft in hopes of clearing out the toxic gases. zpl this is the setback. the worst of our three options from a rescue attempt, but it's still valid because if someone's alive, thai they're in the chamber. >> let's get to brian mooar. how long do they think they're going to have to pull the rescuers out before they can get

back in? >> reporter: it's going take hours. the word that the air quality inside the mine the brought down to the nonexplosive level they need. for the families, of course, this long, anguishing wait is dragging out longer. they're hanging on to this sliver of hope that the four lost miners might be alive. but officials here are being very clear about that, that there are long odds, there have been from the beginning and they can't risk the lives of these rescue crews to go in and work their way through these obstacles, basically going back five miles deep into this mountain on the off chance these miners might be alive. if they are alive, if they are in the rescue chamber, they could survive for 96 hours, so

officials are being very methodical about that. we have an update on the two miners that survived. one, still in the intensive care unit, the other said to be very, very well. >> thank you for the wup date. no charges will be filed against a diplomat from qatar. he was caught smoking in the bathroom in the first class section. he was confronted by the crew and reportedly joked that he was trying to light his shoe on fire. not a smart thing to do in this post-9/11 w0r8d world. two air m ars hals detained the guy. >> we knew something really serious was going on. we didn't know if it was a device or bad guy. both the air marshals and crew were unbelievable. they did so much to keep the situation really low key.

if you weren't within two or three rows, you wouldn't have any idea what was going on. >> no explosives were found on the plane. lots of hassles at los angeles international after a security breach today. screening came to a halt at terminals five, six and seven. hundreds of passengers were forced to go outside and go back through screening. 15 flights were delayed because a guy did not undergo proper security screening. he was going through, they told him his carry-on needed to be checked. instead, he took it and went off. nothing dangerous was found. kyrgyzstan is bracing for more political turmoil in the wake of violent clashes in the streets. the opposition set up its own government, but the president is refusing to resign. the clashes between government

protesters and police was violent and deadly. police panicked, firing off high-powered guns after protesters through rocks. yonotan joins us now. >> reporter: it's been a day of relatively calm rallies after the protests that left at least 40 dead and ousted the president from his offices. we went to visit the white house just a few hours ago. still, extensive damage. parts of the billing sti ining smoldering. we also saw damage in the parliament building. the leader of the int rim government of the opposition groups have said that the president is now in the south of the country, trying to rally his troops and hold on to power, but

the opposition said they would only talk to him if he would hand over power. the people here are anti-bakiyev. they support the opposition. they blaig blame bakiyev for years of corruption and the final straw, a huge raising of utility prices, which would especially hit people here hard. over a third of the population is underneath the poverty line. one last issue is the fate of the u.s. air base at manas. i spoke with roza otunbayeva, the head of the opposition group and she said as of now, there is no change of policy. no change for the status of the manas base, but she wants to talk to the u.s. ambassador soon. in the past, the opposition has said they're opposed to it remaining open. back to you.

>> we'll stay on top of the situation there. another bump in the road toward an xik recovery. first time claims for unemployment benefits climbed by 18,000 last week to 460,000 people. experts were expecting a drop. unit airlines and us airways are in merger talks. if they combine, it would create a nation's second biggest airlines. and retail sales were strong last month. they credit the gains to warm weather. dow jones industrials down three, s&p flat. not a lot of movement today in the markets. bernie madoff's exclusive penthouse is off the market. it sold for $8.8 million. that's a million less than the original asking price. the buyer is a toy executive who was behind the cabbage patch kids. money will go to reimburse

madoff's victims. starting next hour, tiger woods begins his quest in his return to golf. kerry sanders is at the masters in augusta, georgia. what are you seeing in terms of crowds today? >> reporter: huge. very, very busy. it is a sought after ticket. if you have a ticket today and wanted to sell it to the aftermarket, you could get upwards of $750. everybody wants to be out there at 1:42 when tiger tees it off. i think the speculation ends and analysis begins. did he lose his game? was this scandal so impactful on his life that he can no longer compete with the others here. that he's no longer the uniquely focused athlete, or can he still

conpartmentalize his life as has been said when his father died and other traumas he's had to deal with, and focus just on that little white ball and the cup down there on the green. it will be interesting to see. of course, we won't know until friday if he makes the cut or not, how this all works. the odds are among the betters, that he is going to make it into the weekend rounds. the only thing he might have to be overly concerned with is the weather. the clouds have moved in. about 75 degrees. the wind about 19 miles an hour. if it rains, he starts his game and it turns out he has to stop because of the rain, that can maybe break up the rhythm he begins with. >> and the weather's going to be a factor for all of them, but not all reaching the a-man corner at the time of the storm. on this day of tiger's comeback, nike's out with a new ad.

though tiger doesn't speak, his late father does. >> i want to find out what you're thinking was. i want to find out what your feelings are. and did you learn anything. >> here's my big question today. tiger's new ad, what's nike trying to accomplish here. if you want to let me know, give me a shout here on facebook, on twitter and my e-mail. we'll get through some of these later on. a philadelphia mom and daughter are reunited after 25 years, but this wasn't a prearranged meeting. talk about bumping into somebody. but the most important is the honor of being in your garage. if you're shopping for a new car, we invite you to put us to the test. and may the best car win.

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in pennsylvania. more than 25 years after legal problems cause a mother to lose touch with her daughter, a chance encounter has brought them back together. olivia green walked into a family assistance office and noticed a familiar woman working security. >> reporter: olivia green walked into a family assistance office in north philadelphia not having any idea her life was about to change. >> it is a miracle because for years, i just cried and bawled all the time, praying. >> reporter: her daughter, whom she hasn't seen in 25 years, happens to work at the security office. >> i said, you know who i am, i said, christine, my daughter? >> i would have never thought to come to work and find my mom. >> reporter: besides reunits

with her mother, christina is also meeting her other siblings. >> it's the lord. he was tired of us suffering. it was time to bring the family together. >> demolition crews in detroit are restarting a program today to rip down abandoned houses in the city. the program aims to demolish nearly 3,000 dangerous structures. it failed last year. in texas, police are holding a 52-year-old man without bail in connection to a number of suspicious devices found in a postal collection box. he's being questioned about 36 devices placed in 23 locations, at least five were pipe bombs. no reported injuries. police are charging larry north with possession of firearms. if convicted, he could face ten years in prison. the time to hide on this one

is over. we need to come clean. that's what herb miller, toyota's then group vice president told his colleagues in an e-mail referring to the safety problems just five days before toyota announced the recall. phil lebeau joins us now. what's toyota's response? >> they are not specifically commenting about the e-mail, but they say they understand they've done a poor job of communicating. this is a copy of it. one of 70,000 document that is the federal government has been going over in looking at how toyota handled the recall for sticky gas pedals. it's clear that some toyota executives realized they had to come out and say something. although it was sent five days before the recall. one of the quotes in this --

then saying they need to work out a resolution with the national highway safety administration. as interesting as the wording is here, lawyers who have sued the company and are planning on taking the company to court, almost all say the same thing. which is great for the public fodder. not sure how much this is going to help their cases in course aside from the fact it's one more document they already planned on presenting. >> all right. phil, thanks. the white house says the u.s. is marking a new era of cooperation with russia after the two countries signed a treaty today. the ceremony happened this morning in prague where president obama suggested the entire world benefits when rivals find common ground. >> when the united states and russia are not able to work together on big issues, it's not

good for either of our nations nor is it good for the world. together, we've stop ped that drift and proven the benefits of cooperation. >> mike viqueira joins us from the white house. apparently, there was some sticking points even though they got the treaty done, the issue of missile defense programs not so easy. >> right. and american officials are calling this a win-win for both countries, heralding a new day after what they saw as the bottoming out during the bush administration, saying they hadn't been that bad since the early '80s. a lot of discussion centers around iran and its nuclear aspirations, but it is this plan for missile defense, the system that was supposed to be based in eastern europe, but which makes

russia very uncomfortable. russia says they'll pull out of this thing, this s.t.a.r.t. agreement, if in fact this goes forward, so a lot of problems. not the least of which is prospects in the senate. yes, these two leaders have signed this agreement today, but it has to be ratified by 2/3 of the senate. that's 67 senators. you can imagine how hard it is to get that kind of bipartisan kind of compromise, white house officials reminding everyone time and time again, including robert gibbs on twitter a few minutes ago, about the bipartisan, vast majorities have passed these kinds of treaties. >> they're already putting the pressure on. searching for a job, tough these days for millions of americans, but for our nation's veterans, the struggle is even tougher. how one program is working with wounded warriors to make sure they have a place on wall street. and taking a look at what's hot on the web today, americans usually dread tax day, but

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los angeles facing a $10 million lawsuit based on a security tape recorded last month at a bakery. health inspectors supposed to be looking for violations. he was looking for something else. she refused his physical advances. she filed a claim. the inspector has not been arrested. police in new mexico have released video from a man so drunk last month, he stopped his car in the middle of the highway to sleep it off. an officer slashed the car's tires so if he woke up, he couldn't escape. the suspect didn't get far. deputies say this was the second time they've arrested this guy

for dwi this year. did they leave their spell checker in san francisco? here's a mistake on the jersey of valdez. he was spotted last night in houston. the words, san francisco, misspelled. team says it was just his jersey, so they'll have it fixed by next game. today's job market is is tough, but more so on americans trading in their military uniforms for a suit and tie. the unemployment rate for men who served in iraq and afghanistan has tripled since the recession began. it's at 15%. joining me now is john jones, the executive director for for wall street war fighters foundation. put this in perspective for me, about what's greeting our men from iraq and afghanistan. >> these numbers are very

stragerring, that we have these people that have led people in comb combat, in peacetime, that come out and get injured and don't have a job. they don't have anything to fall back on. >> when we're talking about what stands in the way, experts say there are a couple of reasons. employers don't know how to handle post-traumatic stress disorder. the guys could be deployed at any time and our guys aren't doing a great job of translating what makes them qualified candidates into a resume form. is that fixable? >> most definitely. for the employers, they don't understand that people can have a traumatic injury or experience. that's on a regular basis. just because of an individual is in war, well, that doesn't matter. if an individual is in a car wreck, they might have ptsd. >> we're talking about men

coming back from iraq and afghanistan. the unemployment, 15% this year compared to 5% in 2007. what about women? >> women are 12 to 16%. that number doubles after two or three deployments. also, on top of that, these women that are coming back, are two to four times more likely to be unemployed than a person not employed in the military. >> what are you doing about it? >> we're getting disabled veterans, the wounded, ill and injured into the markets. we're bringing them to philadelphia for a training program to get their license to be a broker on wall street. >> have you seen success yet? >> we are at the beginning, but we have placed five out of the seven candidates we've had in our program, with jobs with just numerous omt amounts of jobs. >> give me the website. >>

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here's what's happening right now. president obama and russian president medvedev signed a nuclear arms treaty in prague this morning. it will reduce the number of nuclear warheads by about the third. if number of newly laid off workers increased last week. worse than economists expected. jobs remain scarce even as the economy recovers. we're just a little more than an hour away from tiger woods teeing off in the masters. rescue efforts continue for four missing miners in west virginia. family members are holding out hope. >> it's a roller coaster for these people. it's very emotional. you can only imagine what it would be like.

and it's -- they're very understanding. bruce dial has investigating several mine fatalities. let's go back to this morning when they said, we have to get these crews out of there. so close. just about 1,000 feet away from a rescue chamber. put that into perspective for us. >> what they did after they drilled the hole frs the surface down to help ventilate the area, they sent the crews back in. well, these holes that they're putting down would only allow about 850 cubic feet of air into the that area. so the content, the methane content of 5.4% was still there. which is too high to take the chance of allowing anybody else to go in to that area, so they had to pull the rescue teams back out. >> and given that it takes a while for the rescue teams to get in and out, the rails are

twisted and they have to go in on foot, the timeline here is the problem because even if these four miners, they think maybe three of them, made it inside the refuge chamber that hasn't been checked, they only have four days of air and supplies, correct? >> correct. it's for 15 people. >> oh, so they maybe have more if they got there in time, if they were able to seal up the refuge chamber, then they would have time to go to a rescue effort? >> yes, if there was only three people, they would possibly have more hours of oxygen available to them, so it would give them a little bit more time, yes. >> so, tell me then about exchanging fresh air, safe air, for this poisonous methane gas buildup greeting the rescue crews, the reason why they have to pull back. >> well, the reason the air is

methane as well as carbon monoxide, the methane is explosive. from about 5 to 15%, so once the air with the methane content got above 5%, it was too dangerous for the teams to work in there. just a spark could cause another explosion. >> given the fact they think it's a long shot to find these four miners alive and they're not willing to risk the lives of the rescue crew to get in there. thank you. >> you're welcome. the u.s. military has confirmed the latest hostage video released by the taliban is that of private first class bergdahl. he disappeared in june 2009. in this video, bergdahl says he's like to return to his family in idaho, that the war in afghanistan isn't worth the

number of lives that have been lost or wasted in prison. some extremely tense moments in the sky after a young diplomat from qatar sparked a major security scare. no charges will be filed against mohammed al-madadi, who was caught smoking in the bathroom. what really caused the scare is he reportedly joked about trying to light his shoe on fire. u.s. marshals took him into custody. passengers on other planes were put on security alerts as well. pilots telling them to keep their hands in plain sight. former u.s. air marshal instruct instructor, jamie smith, joins me now. did things work the way they're supposed to? >> from the reports we got, they did. the scrambling of the aircraft, the marshal's response. everything seemed to work as it

was supposed to. al-madadi, he broke the law and he's a diplomat, however. he has immunity. there's really nothing that's going to be done to the man. >> let me ask a question. how come we're not hearing that the smoke detector went off. when you go into these airplane bathrooms, they say there's a major fine for disabling or tampering with the smoke detector. is it likely that was the case, that was why an alarm did not go off? >> well, we don't know that the smoke detector failed. it may have been that the smoke detector actually worked and the flight attendant then notified the proper people on the airplane to handle that situation because of the grave concern you have if you have a fire on board an aircraft, you want to find out the source of that fire and don't want to

panic the people on the plane. that the smoke detector is not something we've heard about having gone off yet doesn't mean that it failed and it doesn't mean that he disabled it either. more likely than not, it functioned as it was supposed to on that 757, but the flight attendants notified the proper people without notifying the crowd. >> you're right for pointing out that we don't know it was disabled. it's just they have not said it did. they said he was in the bathroom for a long time and a flight attendant smelled smoke. he said, oh, no, i was trying to light my shoes on fire, which is when the u.s. marshals went in. one more question. do you worry at all that this is illustrative for those who would do us harm on our nation's airplanes? >> we've got to keep in mind that the bad guys are always taking notes.

they're watching our security posture, our tactics, techniques and procedures. that's something that our administration, security administration, is aware of. there are probes in all areas of the u.s. transportation system. they'll send people in just to see how things react without doing anything necessarily overt as far as a threat. it's something that we have to be concerned about and they are taking notes. the system responding worged well. >> in this case, he's a diplomat, so the only consequences may be getting kicked out of the united states. thank you. >> thank you. have a good day. the so-called mean girls accused of tormenting the new girl at a massachusetts school so much that she committed suicide in january, they're in court today. lawyers for the girls entered not guilty pleas on their behalf. >> we've entered not guilty

pleas, not deling winsy pleas. this is the first step in a long process. >> we're learn iing the suspect and their lawyers are getting bullied themselves. jeff rossen just got ahead hold of court documents detailing phoebe's final days. >> reporter: it's clear reading through these -- it is that this was according to prosecutors, mostly about jealousy. the 15-year-old girl who committed suicide was dating a couple of boys in school. appears these men girls got upset she was suddenly dating their men. one of the bullies told her to stay away from quote, people's men. the day before she died, according to these documents,

i'm quoting here, school has been close to intolerable lately. apparently, just two hours before she hangs herself, she was texting with a friend about this. the actual conversation is not in this document and apparently, there are more texts in her in box. so all of this really plays this case out that this was a pretty daily occurrence. apparently, there were physical threats as well. in english class, one of the bullies told her we're going to kick your, you know what, your behind, and phoebe was scared and felt she couldn't physically fight these kids and didn't want to. it sort of lays out the torment phoebe may have been going through. >> thanks a lot. apologize for the audio problems there. we wanted to get that in. a former cop admits he was part of a deadly cover-up. he admits he watched fellow

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all right. giving us a look at other stories making news. at least 200 feared dead in the latest landslide to strike brazil. as many as 60 houses for flattened in a poor neighborhood outside rio day ja ner. officials in china say the death toll is now 12 following a mining accident there. 115 others were freed this week.

a town in central australia is reeling from an insect innovation. swarms of locusts came through and it's being called the biggest plague to hit the region in three decades. france's first lady is trying to stop the gossip about her marriage. she went on european radio last night to set the record straight. stephanie gosk joins me from london. >> it gets a little complicated because she went on the radio station to talk about the fact that she and her husband, nicolas sarkozy, are not victims of the plot. she says this is a matter of new importance, taking on proportions that i find ridiculous. it goes back to a blog on a

french website that alleged she and her husband were involved in extramarital affairs. it created this fire storm of press coverage and after that, two officials close to sarkozy, her husband, came out and said they believed it was a plot to discredit his government. basically, this has snowballed to even the point where the former justice minister had to come out and say, look, i wasn't behind any kind of plot. but it's turning into quite a story, contessa. >> she says we're not victims in any kind of plot here, but if the whole blog coming out saying they were affairs was about a plot to discredit the government, is she saying they were extramarital affairs? >> they've already denied it and basically, what has happened

since then, is they're in what it appears to be at least, aura of paranoia. that actually, there are forces within the government that aren't in power that are trying to discredit sarkozy and even, one said even the change the direction of financial markets at one point. it appears as if the first lady went on this radio station to combat the claims of this plot, but also to give this whole theory, to sort of down play that and say it's just rumor. >> no plots, no affairs. thank you. >> i know, it's very boring. tiger may be teeing off in about an hour, but it's a new ad getting all the buzz today. woods staring straight forward

as his late father lectures him.

space may be big, but you can never have enough closet space, which is why folks are celebrating. "discovery's" astronauts are just about done attaching a new carrier. once it's emtty, it will be a storage closet. in about an hour, tiger woods tries to put it behind him. he tees off in about an hour and for the first time since the sex scandal erupted, nike has put out a new ad to feature woods. but tiger doesn't say a word. you only hear the voice of his late father. >> i want to find out what your thinking was. i want to find out what your

feelings are and did you learn anything. >> let's bring in jason maloney, crisis management expert. what does nike get out of that? >> well, first of all, it's unusual that in ancient time, the poets used to wait until after the battle until they wrote the sagas and poems about what happened. today, nike can bring it to us days in advance. >> donny deutsch, who frequently appears here on msnbc, says that ad is brilliant. is there an impact on tiger, good or bad, do you think? >> i think you have to look at them separately. it's a very smooth ad, very slick. however, i think it's in stark contrast to what we saw from tiger himself. i think it's good for nike. i don't know that it's necessarily good for tiger. on tuesday, he had a wonderful session. probably the first time he's scored points in this issue to date, where he connected, told

about being a father, talked about how difficult recent weeks and months have been in therapy for them and yet today, we see sort of the start of the team tiger engine cranking up. >> and there's already a new mock online. let me play that. >> hey, it's tiger. i need you to do me a huge favor. can you please take your name off your phone. my wife went through my phone and may be calling you. >> so pairing that nike image with the recording of a phone call he left for one of his mistresses, that's problematic, don't you think? >> that's going to come out every time, you can expect that. smart athletes, smart individuals in the public eye are going to be able to counter

that with a sophisticated media campaign. tiger's doing what tiger does best and that is getting back to competition. it's not going to be one in one ad, one in one press conference. it's a series of small battles that he's going to have to fight and take this one step at a time. >> and if he fails to come out on top in this tournament, does this follow him? >> well, i think that's naturally going to come and if he was smart, he would have prepared his fans and news media for probably some mixed results this weekend. i think we expect him to do well. he would be wise to prepare people for a very slow start. that way, he's sort of p predisposed the audience to mixed results and can get back to playing his best golf. >> thanks for joining me. we've been talking online today about the ad that features the voice of tiger's dad.

christian wright says -- larry str writes -- johnny says -- and michael strong responds -- if you'd like to share your thoughts and this story or any of the stories we talk about here, you can do so on twitter, facebook. on that note, i wrap up this hour. i'll see you back here tomorrow at noon eastern. andr"andrea mitchell reports," and among her guests, jay rockefeller and bill cohen. it's great. i eat anything that i want.

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